Shanghai authorities chose to continue their draconian “zero-COVID” strategy on April 6 after ordering another round of citywide tests to control an outbreak that a local official described as “extremely grim.”
Gu Honghui, Shanghai’s deputy secretary-general, made the grim assessment during a briefing on Wednesday. He said the new COVID tests would target mainly locals whose residential compounds had reported infection cases between April 1 and April 5. Additionally, individuals who have tested negative after an initial positive result would also undergo another round of testing.
